Liberation Maiden Gets A Sequel On PS3… As A Visual Novel

Liberation Maiden, the shooter from Nintendo 3DS game compilation, Guild01, is getting a follow-up on PlayStation 3… as a visual novel.

The new title is called Liberation Maiden Sin and will be published by 5pb, according to this week’s Famitsu magazine.

The main character in Sin goes by the name of Kiyoto Kaido. He recently began his new post as Chairman’s aide to President Shoko Ozora, who was the star of the original Liberation Maiden. He has the special ability to read other people’s thoughts, which will come in handy for the young President.

Famitsu also say that several new female characters will be appearing as cabinet ministers. Grasshopper CEO Goichi Suda who originally contributed to Guild01 with Liberation Maiden will also be writing some of the scenarios of Liberation Maiden Sin.

It’s a visual novel. Don’t get me wrong, I love VNs, but I don’t think anyone particularly asked for this fantastic quirky, anime-esque action game to be downgraded into a VN. :(

MrSirFeatherFang

I see. I did not play the 1st game so it explains why I am not as disappointed as many of you are.
(btw it seems like disqus isn’t notifying me whenever I get a reply. I get my notification after a few hours from when someone replies to me. so sorry if it took a while)

Yeah… I don’t mean to be a debbie downer, but Liberation Maiden was just a fantastic action game. Super stylish, great music, very replayable. It ended on a cliffhanger, too, with a big battle looming. Everyone wanted to be able to play that in a sequel, including myself. I can only hope they do a proper sequel at some point.

Seraph

Mind you, some Visual Novels do have other gameplay elements to them, but some of those are more or less a dime a dozen.

Josephl64

it’s kind of insultive to call VNs a downgrade of anything. You can treat this as a sidegame and hope for a true sequel if you wish, but if the story is done well in this VN…then they will easily gain my approval

I bet the writing alone will take more time than it took to develop the entirety of the original Liberation Maiden.

No way, man. This is probably being put together using a bunch of random ideas Suda had floating around in his head, mixed with whatever otaku bait 5pb can think up next. An actual game is way more complex when you factor in things like QA, optimization etc.

Anyway, I’d actually be curious – in theory – to see what Suda could come up with in a visual novel format, without the need to tie his ideas in to suspect game mechanics. After all, prior to Killer7 GHM mostly did adventure games, and frankly they were a better studio then than they are now.

Of course, the actual writing in Liberation Maiden was horrendously bland (seriously, it was an amusing premise and then… nothing) so practically anything would be an improvement in that department.

Not gonna happen. They’re already a niche genre even in Japan; in the West their appeal is never going to extend beyond a tiny subset of hardcore fans. Which isn’t to say that we might not see more VNs localized for that tiny little niche in the future.

I mean it’s neat but we’re never gonna get this. Wish they’d actually go back and create a full fledged title. Liberation Maiden has so much promise as a game it’s just really damn short.

z_merquise

I became so excited for a second there. That’s very disappointing.

I really hope to see more of this game. But as a shoot-em-up game and not really as a visual novel. Not that I hate VNs, of course. I played some of them but it’s just that I would never expect the sudden genre shift for a “sequel”. A shift of platform even.

TrevHead

What a waste! especially when you consider 3D shooters are quite a rarity on home consoles (most of what we have is spoiled by kinect)

oh, so they took a game with an interesting female lead, made a vn sequel where you likely attempt to grope her and several other trope-ridden females and play as a gary-stu

oh okay

sounds like they just want to make a quick buck. :<

Göran Isacson

I wish and hope that you are wrong, but hearing that they will be adding several female cabinet ministers sounds… okay so it COULD be just to make an interesting statement but I will not deny that my cynical side is agreeing with you. He’s agreeing with you A LOT.

at least some good news today… I still want a proper sequel, but more Liberation Maiden is always good to have :)

Ni

Wait…They make a >PS3< sequel and is just a VN? What the f!? The other thing that is pissing me off is that the game is going to be turned in to a harem VN from the information on the article. I really liked Liberation Maiden, the game for me was just awesome and one of my favourites games in the 3DS and just to think that they are going to use the PS3 hardware for just a VN is a really lazy decision of them. Don't get me wrong, i really like to play VNs but to see what they could do with Liberation Maiden on the PS3 hardware and they just make a VN is really pissing me off ):

SteveEdwards

Well I didn’t expect this. I mean, liberation maiden had a great plot (you have just been elected president of Japan, now take this mecha and destroy stuff) but I really dont see how expanding on it could improve its simple perfection.

Alexandra Cordes

…Say whaaaaaaaat.

TWE

So the guild compilations a sort of testing ground for the potential of new IP, huh. I actually don’t mind the model, to be honest, but the platform jump is a little strange. In any case, liked the world they built in the first one so looking forward to this.

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